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ROOKERY

ROOKERY

Matt Nichols

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TrueHistories
Año de edición:
2026
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Historia social y cultural
ISBN:
9798224216369
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London, 1849: The Smell Before the Coffins. ​Forget the flickering gaslight and the 'lovable rogues' of Charles Dickens. In ROOKERY: The Filth, the Fear, and the Lie of Victorian London, the fog is stripped away to reveal a brutal forensic reality. ​Using parliamentary papers, sanitary commission reports, and sworn testimony, this investigative history performs a 'post-mortem' on the Victorian slum. From the ankle-deep sewage of Jacob’s Island to the lethal overcrowding of St. Giles, discover the systemic greed that balanced landlord profit against human breath. ​Inside this 'Forensic Dissection':​The Environmental Assessment: How contaminated wells and overflowing cesspools primed the city for cholera. ​Internal Economics: The subletting chains and absentee landlords who made squalor a profitable industry. ​Trauma Analysis: The reality of living 'one wall away from the knife' in London’s most dangerous mazes. ​This isn’t a story of villains in top hats-it is the story of a system allowed to fester.

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